Self-Organised Workshops
The Self-Organised Workshop Sessions were an exciting melting pot of topics covering a range of knowledges and skills areas. These were parallel sessions which blended information and discussions with the express goal to impart knowledge of the topics; and used a combination of popular education tools and methodologies which emphasised participation, interaction and hands-on exercises where participants learnt and practiced the knowledge and skills that were the focus of the workshops:
Workshop: Sharing a community learning programme that combines media and behaviour change communication in respect of HIV and AIDS.
Aim: Working together with a wide range of partners In Upington, the Media and Training Centre for Health has implemented a community learning model that addresses HIV and AIDS with 500 “active learners”.
This 1 day workshop explored the lessons learnt and provided practical examples of how this model can be replicated in the Western Cape. While the Upington project focussed specifically on HIV &AIDS, the model can be used to address any public health issue. Community radio, cell-phone messaging, print media and social networking web-sites were all explored as part of this multi-media approach to participatory content development.
Aim: Working together with a wide range of partners In Upington, the Media and Training Centre for Health has implemented a community learning model that addresses HIV and AIDS with 500 “active learners”.
This 1 day workshop explored the lessons learnt and provided practical examples of how this model can be replicated in the Western Cape. While the Upington project focussed specifically on HIV &AIDS, the model can be used to address any public health issue. Community radio, cell-phone messaging, print media and social networking web-sites were all explored as part of this multi-media approach to participatory content development.
Seminar: Changing the Rules of the Game - Impacting the lives of the very poor in Rural India – The story of PRADAN
Speakers: Mr Soumen Biswas, Executive Director of PRADAN; Judy Scott-Goldman
Hosted by Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies in conjunction with NGO-week.
Inequality and structural poverty — poverty that is rooted in the basic structural set-up of society — are inextricably linked. Through strategies that create access to assets, build agency and voice of individuals and communities, support the development of secure livelihoods through technological, business and market improvement and relevant training, and changing the rules of the game to make them work more in favour of the poor, community driven development can make a significant contribution to state led interventions.
South African NGO Khanya-aicdd collaborated with PRADAN, a leader in promoting rural livelihoods in both farm and non-farm sectors in India to research Hybrid Organisations and their contribution to Meaningful Rural Livelihoods. The role of hybrid organisations in strategies for community driven development can be significant: they offer multiple services, either internally or through partnerships, in order to build a comprehensive systemic response to multiple needs. Success requires the ability to create access to assets, to build agency and voice of individuals and communities, to support the development of secure livelihoods through technological, business and market improvement and relevant training, and changing the rules of the game to make them work more in favour of the poor.
PRADAN promotes livelihoods of the very poor in the poverty heartland of India and visualises eradicating abject poverty from the lives of 1.5 m rural families (~8.25 m poor people) in 10 years in a phased manner. Mr Soumen Biswas, Executive Director of PRADAN, will speak on the journey of PRADAN and lessons learnt in the process.
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